A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

Speculative fiction helps us imagine new futures—life on Mars (The Martian), the genetic resurrection of dinosaurs (Jurassic Park), the creation of a surveillance state (1984). So Eliot Peper—author ...

The “Alien” movies vary widely in quality — there arguably hasn’t been a truly satisfying one since the first two in 1979 and 1986 — but a key thread has endured across the 46 years: However scary the ...

Artificial intelligence occupies the minds of many these days, including the showrunner, Noah Hawley, of a new FX series based on the long-lurking “Alien” franchise, “Alien: Earth.” Mr. Hawley informs ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

The Alien franchise is best known for its numerous films, but the sci-fi horror property also spans video games, books, and graphic novels. Soon, one of the best comic runs, Alien: Galaxy of ...

Dark Horse has created and published many comics within the Alien universe. Some of these comics have been turned into novels. In total, nine have been adapted into novels, which will be explained ...

Nobody pleaded that "Fargo," that 1996 cinematic gem from Joel and Ethan Coen, should be made into a TV series. And yet writer and director Noah Hawley has (so far) delivered five seasons and an award ...

Decoding emergent languages in AI can have many benefits. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the 2016 science fiction movie ...